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From: tomc@mntgfx.mentor.com (Tom Carstensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: tabs in textedit
Summary: Textedit? Tab? 32K?  come on!
Keywords: tabs textedit
Message-ID: <1988Jan14.111722.766@mntgfx.mentor.com>
Date: 14 Jan 88 19:17:19 GMT
References: <1860@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Organization: Mentor Graphics Corporation, Beaverton Oregon
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As far as I'm concerned, TextEdit is worthless 
because of it's 32K limit, non-handling of tabs,
and the implementation is so slow.  I originally
added by on StdMeas and StdTxt routines to support
tabs, but by doing this, selecting text was
EXTREMELY sluggish and annoying.  (Try typing 
in a line of 200 characters or so WITH tabs, and then
selecting that line - moving the mouse back and forth - UGH!).

I bagged TextEdit, and wrote my own which is overall,
much faster.  It's being incorperated into an Editor
I'm developing, which will be finished soon.

Since I rewrote TextEdit, I was able to support such things
as rectangular selection (which I find most useful) and
Hiding (folding in ) of text.

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